HOW TO – Boot XP from an ordinary USB drive
Prepare an install of Windows XP for booting off a USB flash drive in 15 steps, handy! [via] Link. Pictured here, USB flash drive earrings – have a bootable XP for guys and gals on the go.
DIY Projects
The Subwoofer that shook the world
HTRN writes – “Using an entire basement or large room as the resonant box and multiples of large drivers (the article uses 12 15 inchers!) and a monster pro audio amp, it reproduces sounds so low and so loud, they’re felt rather than heard. After looking at this, I went looking for my Sawzall!” Link.
Tape Canvas
Moonbear3325 has some photos of the “Tape Canvas” he made – you use tapes from cassettes/8-track on a mat and play it by moving the head around – “The tape head has been extended via shielded cable. The “canvas” is made of strips of “8-track” tapes, removed from cartridge and pressed to sticky “foam core” […]
$35 Night vision scope, from a CVS camcorder
Remember the CVS Night vision camera project we posted about awhile back? Here’s another one, it’s awesome. Everett writes – “This is home-built night vision that was originally a CVS one-time-use video camera. I already have one that I hacked for repeated use and turned into an underwater camera, so this second one became night-vision.” […]
HOW TO – Ribbon controller in 15 minutes
Derek writes in about his quick and dirty how-to on making ribbon controllers from S-VHS tape – “While often used in electronic music, you can use a ribbon controller wherever you’d use a potentiometer, with the caveat (at least with this design, which has no sample and hold) that you have to keep pressing down. […]
Repairing an old TV
This Maker on Flickr has had the same 14″ TV for over a decade dutifully serving retro console and computer games. When the power switch broke, he didn’t toss it like we usually do with modern TVs, he fixed it, his way – “The original switch was a two-part affair, the main switch turning on […]
Aluminum Spire – case mod
Slick looking case mod made from aluminum in an old monitor. Ville ‘Willek’ Kyro writes – “I made the roof for the case out of an old CRT monitor’s aluminum shielding. This is basically an aluminum plate with lots of holes in it. For the front and back I made two aluminum plates, with hexagonal […]
